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Subtitle: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World
History: Princeton Univ Press, 2016, 432 pgs, index, bibliography, notes,
Appendices, illustrations - review by Jeffrey Wassserstrom "Flying Rats
and Festive Fireworks" in WSJ.
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Introduction
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Part I: Chinese Beginnings: Chapter 1, The Crucible: The Song Warring
States Period
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Chapter 2 - Early Gunpowder Warfare
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Chapter 3 - The Mongol Wars and the Evolution of the Gun
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Chapter 4 - Great Martiality: The Gunpowder Emperor
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Part II: Europe Gets the Gun Chapter 5 - The Medieval Gun
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Chapter 6: Big Guns: Why Western Europe and Not China Developed
Gunpowder Artillery
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Chapter 7: The Development of the Classic Gun in Europe
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Chapter 8: The Gunpowder Age in Europe
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Chapter 9: Cannibals with Cannons: The Sino-Portuguse Clashes of
1521-1522
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Part III: An Age of Parity: Chapter 10: The Frankish Cannon
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Chapter 11: Drill, Discipline, and the Rise of the West
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Chapter 12: The Musket in East Asia
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Chapter 13: The Seventeenth Century: An Age of Parity?
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Chapter 14: A European Naval Advantage
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Chapter 15: The Renaissance Fortress: An Agent of European Expansion?
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Part IV: The Great Military Divergence: Chapter 16: The Opium War and
the Great Divergence
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Chapter 17: A Modernizing Moment: Opium War Reforms
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Chapter 18: China's Modernization and the End of the Gunpowder Age
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Conclusions:
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Appendix I: Timeline
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Appendix 2: Datasets
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